at the same time, they took away some close blue spaces at the Univeristy where a friend of mine works so she has to walk farther, which challenges HER disability. she called the folks in charge, and they just said "we are ADA compliant." the end.
why is it always either/or? why not some of both? or lots of both?
meanwhile, I don't know a thing about the discussions you are referring to on alt.poly, but that never kept me from putting my two cents in.
and LOL to those poor privileged people posting above having to pee in the small stall.
wouldn't it be an interesting experiment if a thin person had to navigate through a series of rooms where the clearance space was a minimal as what a fat person faces - like an airplane bathroom where you touch all 4 walls standing up, so wiping is a luxury - the chairs all had arms and were too narrow - the halls were barely passable - etc. - etc. - I wonder if that would change anyone's perception of what it's like to live in a fat person's body?
(I know, this is about disability, I got distracted okay?)
I wonder if that would change anyone's perception of what it's like to live in a fat person's body?
Unfortunately in this social climate the majority of those people would come out of the experiment going "I now have even more fear of fatness than I did before." (Only they don't put it that way, generally.)
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Date: 2008-05-01 09:58 pm (UTC)why is it always either/or? why not some of both? or lots of both?
meanwhile, I don't know a thing about the discussions you are referring to on alt.poly, but that never kept me from putting my two cents in.
and LOL to those poor privileged people posting above having to pee in the small stall.
wouldn't it be an interesting experiment if a thin person had to navigate through a series of rooms where the clearance space was a minimal as what a fat person faces - like an airplane bathroom where you touch all 4 walls standing up, so wiping is a luxury - the chairs all had arms and were too narrow - the halls were barely passable - etc. - etc. - I wonder if that would change anyone's perception of what it's like to live in a fat person's body?
(I know, this is about disability, I got distracted okay?)
oh, and LOL the neurologist referral as well.
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Date: 2008-05-02 07:56 am (UTC)Unfortunately in this social climate the majority of those people would come out of the experiment going "I now have even more fear of fatness than I did before." (Only they don't put it that way, generally.)